Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 8, 1917, Page 6

eerie Sue a aR awe, THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE ee CRIMES dnd MYSTERIES INFATUATION OF MARY BLANDY. ARY BLANDY does not rank with the gre artists in crime, but as an i!asiration of human perversity she remains supreme. The babes and sucklings of her time have become ven- erable men end women, and all kinds of water have passed under the bridge, but her name still lives in England, and when old lawyers encounter a pe- culiarly cold-blooded criminal, the wont to suy that he Is as bad as M Blandy. Mary lived with her parents at He ley-on-Thames, Her father was a fir comfortable man, a solicitor who had a seemly package of pieces of eight salted down to his old age, and to leave to his beloved daughter when he went to sleep with his fathers. Mary was the joy and pride of his life. He thought so much of her that he used to bore his friends describing: her noble and charming qualities, and seemed to be under the tipression that she ought to have been presented with a gold- headed cane at least once a day. And, really, the old man was not without excuse, for Mary was a most attractive damsel. She was young, well educat- ed, of divers accomplishments, and a pleasant personality. The father was justified In believing that she eventu- ally would marry some excellent citi- zen, and live happy ever after. If she didn’t do this it was not be- cause of a lack of excellent citizens, or a backwardn on their part. Her sultors fuirly trampled down all the flowers in the front yard in their eager- Mary's Adamantine Conscience Was Touched. ness to propose to her, and among them were some of the most desirable and promising young men in the neigh- borhood. She treated them all as good friends, and turned them down, one after another, when they volunteered to escort her to the altar, In view of what followed it is well to remember that Mary Blandy had her chance to pick and choose from all the beautiful | young men of the countryside. In the fullness of time Captain Cranstoun came to Henley on recruit- ing service. The captain was a carica- ture of a man, He was small ana withered, badly pitted with the small- pox, cross-eyed and possessed of a hideous muddy complexion. He was the ugilest thing seen on the main Street of the town In many a day. Inm- agine, therefore, the consternation of the beautiful young men who had been rejected in one-two-three order, when they learned that Cranstoun was pay- ing his attentions to Mary, and evi- dently with success. Mary seemed infatuated with her shriveled captain, So the young men held an indigna- tion meeting, and resolved to look up the captain’s record, which they did. It was a bad one, and included the fact that he had a wife and children in Scotland. Proof of this was sent to Mr. Blandy, and he tried to call a halt. He put his foot down, as becomes the head of a a | Flanders, where he fell ill amd died. | debris, and heard her say in an awe struck yok | about this case is that Mary's mother first to last. She called him her dear son, and when she fell s'ck, after the captain had been forbidden the house | Combination Once More With Us, by Mr, Blandy, she moaned and wailed for her dear son so greatly that he had to be sent for. So he sat at her bedside for hours together, and when he wasn't’ there he was pursuing his courtship of the daughter. Meanwhile Mr. Blandy firm and refused to consent to Mary's marriage to the captain, notwithstand- Ing that the latter proved he was a brother of the happy warrior, failed tc move him. So Mary and the captain held a caucus and decided that the old man was superfluous, and would have to be removed, carefully. They gave out the Informa tion that fun 1 music had been hearc in the which was a certair } Warning that Blandy would die with in’ twelve months. Cranstoun alsc | went around explaining that he was gifted with second sight, and he hac seen the old gentleman's ghost. Lav. ing thus prepared the neighborhood for fatalities, the captain went to Scot land and sent Mary a packag: der for cleuning how thoughtful he cleaning the silver Mary absent mindedly began feeding the powder tc her father, who certainly wasn't silver |Mned. She was quite it. She put the powder in his tea, in his porridge, in his gravy. Through a long winter she seasoned his victuals with arsenic, and the old man’s suffer ings were indescribable. During that time two servants were nearly killed by drinking poisoned tea Mary had left lying around. Jure came, and the father still hung on, and Cranstoun wrote Mary a iet ter from tland, intimating that she was slower than molasses in January, and urging her to double the dose One day, when Blandy's sufferings had | besn Intolerable, and he lay moaning and writhing upon his bed, Mar adamantine conscience was touc aod she confess that she had been poisoning him. She fell on her knees ut his bedside and begged her father to curse her, “I curse thee not,” said the poor old man; “no, I bless thee, and hope God will bless thee, and amend thy life.” Shortly after this he died, and he was in his grave before suspicion wag directed toward Mary. Then the serv- ants began to talk, and when suspicion once was aroused, there was no diffi- culty in securing evidence, for the girl had been perfectly reckless In conduct: house, of pow silverware, showing wus. Instead of reless about | give bim up. One of the curious things HISTORIC was a champion of the captain from They laid their plan: | Fur Coats and Earrings Again and Human Nature Re- sponds to Call. cemaines| SMOOTH PELTRIES PREFERRED Prevailing Fur Coats Have Less Flare | Than Last Year, Unless They Are | Cut— Three-Quarter Length | Muffs Are Small and Simple. } | New York.—As far back as one can }.00k into the annals of American | fashions, the possession of a sealskin | coat was accounted supreme happi- ness, The woman who had such | mond earrings, either strutted in her | vanity or tried to look unconscious of | the envy of her neighbors, Other times, other wishes. Three decades have passed since the seal- skin coat was a desirable possession, fand the diamond earrings swinging | from a long loop that went through a pierced hole In the ear speedily sank | Into that blackness of barbarism from which it had sprung. | The fur coat and the diamond ear- | ring are with us again, and again hu- | man nature responds to the same old call, They are not in the shape in which they prevailed for so many dec- ades among our best families, Look- ing back on the plerced ear with Its pendant bauble, we have a shud- der of horror to think that enlight- }ened and Christian nations should have really permitted their women to | retain this bit of savagery without bitter protest. Our mothers had their ears pierced | as children, and possibly we did, too, ing her operations. She was arrested, tried and convicted, and one fine morn- ing she ascended the scaffold, young and handsome still, and suffered all that the law calls for in such cases. Cranstoun, when he heard of her ar- rest, fled from Scotland and went to France. Fearing that he would be hunted down there, he moved on to Overlooked Points in Wager. A wager Is said to have been won by Sir Walter Raleigh, from Queen BHlizabeth on the question of how much smoke is contained in a pound of Vir- ginia tobacco, A pound of the weed was weighed, burned and then weighed again, in ashes. The question was held to be satisfactorily settled by determining that the weight of the smoke was exactly that of the tobacco before being burned, minus the d- uum of ashes, The fact that the ashes had received additional weight by com- bining with the oxygen of the atiaos- pl » and the further fact that certain gases were evolved in the process of combustion were unthought of by the queen and Sir Walter, the knowledge of such things not having then been revealed. Rather Overdid It. The little daughter of a college pro- fessor had been taught to pray for the things which she desired. It was very dry and hot, and everybody y look- ing anxiously for rain, Suddetty it oe curred to the little miss that she could pray for rain, and she acted on her im- pulse at once. Shortly after, there came a terrific thunder shower. Streets were gullied out, trees were blown down and other damage was done. After the shower, the child's mother found her standing at the window look- ing out with a rueful face upon the This evening gown of black velvet has shoulder straps of ermine, also a fringe of this expensive peltry at the hem. There is a diplomat’s sash of it that go@s across the chest and hangs to the knees. if we were born befere the barbarisin was abolished. There are thousands of us now who bear those scars. We cover them up with tabs of hair or, better still, with ornaments that clamp over the egr, just to hide the ravages of an earlier epoch, We have not given up the barbaric baubles; the world is too young to usk that denial of women. The elim- ination of colored stones, cheap and precious, may come as civic life presses itself more insistently into the | social scale and women will do as men have done In giving up all *int is or- namental and resisting the lure of the barbaric. “Oh, Lord,-what have I done?”— Everybody's Magazine. Too Rich Cream. “To illustrate the uses of advertise ments,” says a well-known theatrical manager, “there is one experience I had of which I often think. “I was driving when I came to a farm where thet® was a meadow to let. have made a good advertisement man- ager, for the big poster announcing The owner of this farm would that the meadow was to let was word- ed as follows: ““This field to let, seventeen acres, for grazing. Persons having old cat- te, or cattle with strong appetites, had better be cautious in turning them out to graze here, as my grass is so rich: that it would be Hable to injure them for the first week or so,’” epochs differ. smal, but today it takes many Elemental and Primitive. After all, we are elemental and prim- itive in our clothes. We may change the symptoms, but the deep-seated dis- ease Is there. What woman is there who doesn't want to wear peltry? Those companions of the Paleolithic men in Europe probably received mas- | sive peltry as marriage gifts. | Men have always been hunters of | game, and women have always been wearers of skins. Therefore, how can we expect to change primitive instinct merely because we have changed our bebuvior? And then, there is nothing else that keeps one so warm as peltry, one may argue. This reasoning, how- ever, has little to do with the fact. There are women as far south as the boundary line of Florida who are buy- ing fur coats that reach to their heels, and there are women In India who still gird their loins with the skins of beasts, Logie and reasoning are not behind the wearing of peltry; it is the absolute expression of primordial in- stinct. ‘The skins of the animals are not the same; they differ as the world's It was quite easy for ® woman of the stone age to invest herself in the skin of a stone age aai- skins from the squirrel, ermine, sahle, bit or rat to make one garment one woman, a} | garment, linked with a pair of din- | rab- | chiffon, with collar, belt and hem of for | black seal. The ver threads, It was necessary to introduce seml- precious furs, because it was not pos- sible for the masses to pay the price of the precious ones; so this winter we have a vast variety from which to choose, The furriers say there is no one animal that reigns supreme and that the peltry of any animal is worth » if it passes through the right The art of the furrier Sas be- significant. His is the magic lity to make squirrel look lke , to make raccoon and ‘possum reach Important heights and to put pony skin on a pedestal. He has fox } learned how to point the common an‘l lift the wolf into ¢ s: r almost pre an hare do some sery- ice to the world. It is no wonder, therefore, that a pays well for peltry, no mat- what animal it was skinned. rs go to the furrier, and that » she Is far behind the stone age woman who employed no middle- man between the beast and the gar- ment. The Fashion in Furs. There are two or three things that might say are out of fashion: first, the band of fur on the hem of a cloth velvet ce second, the small ani- mal with head and tails worn snugly around the neck, No one who dresses well is partial to the usage of the en- tire animal this season, which is well, for the nothing artistic about the he es and feet of a dead nging below a woman's live h face. froin the field? ‘The stall neckplece is in the shape of a half muffler or a whole one if you like, provided that the two ends are | fastened In front. Unless a single end thrown over the shoulder is & sively weighted, it is a nuisance to the wear- er. ‘The extra high coachman’s collar of fur remains in fashion for those whe do not like to spoil the shapeliness of drapery The fashionable neckp! is really a shoulderpiece, for in man of the best models it extends to the waistline. There is a snugness about th oulders that is reminiscent of Vv nism. The prevailing fur coats have less flare than last winter, unless they are cut three-quarter length. The long ones hang in a straight, medieval line, with sometimes a deep band of anoth- er fur at the hem, Their rivals, the velour and velvet coats, have the hem fr of peltry, but make up for this omission by lavishness at the waist, the neck and the wrists. Immense Slavic belts of fur, orna- mented with barbaric designs of jew- els in front, are fashionable for gowns and coats. Wristlets of fur that reach almost to the elbow are also in de mand. The muff is a small affair, barrel shaped and usually made of two kinds of fur. Its distinguishing feature is simplicity. It has no cordings nor frills nor ornamentation. Evening gowns are trimmed with fur, and evening coats are heaped with it. Black and white talls of ermine ure used to fringe the edges of velvet evening gowns, and on one distin- guished black velvet dinner frock there are shoulder straps of ermine and a diplomat’s ribbon of the same peltry that Is spread across the chest and finished at the waist with a rosette, Among the furs that are offered as first choice this are ermine, kolinski, flying s Iskin, Bel- gian rabbit, s: moh ‘in and beaver. The smooth peltries are preferred to the long-haired ones. Even such furs as kolinski and skunk have # razor passed down them by the fur- rier to bring them to the softness of sealskin. This is the first time that it has beep possible to make that coarse fur called skunk becoming te the face. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa per Syndicate.) season FUR GOES ON CHIFFON. Why look like the hunter home}; their shoulders and back by hanging} & 4 ie + —— HE traveler in South who studies the tures of the history of that con- unent, the life of colonial times and that which followed it as the na- tional life America various fea- of the separate coun- tries, soon discovers that there is a well-defined line of demarca- tion between the people in- spiration from the traditional sources in Europe and that later time when local influences began to be felt and when the continent developed its own artistic sense that demanded some original expression, This statement applies to the industries that were first brought over from Europe across the Atlantic; it is true of the social life and of education in all the re- publics of the southern continent mani- festing characteristics which are pe- culiarly their own; it is likewise true of municipal and governmental affairs, and finally in regard to the construc- tion of their buildings, especially of the architecture ecclesiastical edifices of the diocesan capitals, says the French edition of the Bulletin of the Pan-American union. As an exam- ple of the colonial epoch in church architecture the ¢athedral of Lima of- fers a good illustration. That coun- try has one archbishopric, that of Lima, eight dependent bishoprics, viz., Arequipa, Huanuco, Chachapoyas, Ayacucho, Puno Trujillo, Cuzco, and Huaraz. In connection with the name of Lima two characters will always be in- timately associated with its historic memories; Pizarro, the intrepid con- queror, whose remains rest in the ca- thedral whose corner stone he laid, who founded the capital and gave it the name of La Ciudad de los Reyes (the city of the kiugs); and second @ young girl who renounced a life of social ease and pleasure and became renowned for her piety, a renown which resulted in her canonization by Pope Clement IX in 1671 under the name of Saint Rosa of Lima, the pa- tron saint of the capital city as well as of all Catholic South America, It was Pizarro who Irid the plans for the imperial city, including the erection of a great metropolitan church, cated until 1540, and it was at the re- quest of Charles V of Spain that Pope Paul III raised the see of Lima to an archbishopric. As a consequence it was determined to rebuild the edifice, and the work was started under auspl- cious circumstances. Owing to vari- ous interruptions, changes of plans, and other delays the building was not finished until 1625. Not long after the that borrowed when artistic time their Afternoon gown’ of taupe-colored embroidery is In ail- of ruins of the city of Lima, the ca- thedral being among the buildings se- completely restored. The building is of gray stone, and is the largest of the old Spanish ecclesiastical edifices of South America. The facade is 480 feet wide, the building being its two massive square towers, The many columns and archi- consecration of the cathedral, by or- der of the Spanish viceroy, the mortal remains of the great conquistador were transferred to the edifice and now rest in a splendid sarcophagus in one of the chapels. In 1746 an earthquake made a mass riously damaged. In 1758 it was finally feature of the at a tremendous cost. The taterior consists of three naves separated by Stone pillars which support the high vaulted arches. In the central nave is It wus not finished and ded styl CATHEDRAL Cr LIMA tion of the cathedral was tommenced in 1612. It was completed in due course, but in 1844 its interior was partially destroyed by fire, many of its rich treasures, paintings, and other possessions being lost. The rebuild- ing took 20 years, and four years after its restoration it again suffered some damage from the terrible earthquake of 1868. The structure faces the Plaza de Armas, its facade measuring 450 feet in length. It has three €ntrances and the building is supported by 70 large columns of composite Ionic and Dorie style, lending it a massive and splendid appearance. The interior & divided into three naves, separated by superb columns that support the great arches above with harmonious effect. The main altar is of marble, and the pulpit of beautifully carved wood. Huanuco, capital of the department of the same name, was made an epis- copal see in 1865. The once large pop- ulation of the city has dwindled since the discovery of the famous copper mines at Cerro de Pasco until now there are perhaps about 8,000 left. The cathedral which fronts the plaza, is chiefly remarkable for its solid con- struction, having stone arches and a high and pointed steeple. ‘This is ac- counted for by the fact that severe earthquakes have never visited this im- mediate section. Chachapoyas has been a bishopric since 1843. The cathedral is a sim- ple one-story structure of brick, hav- ing two squaré towers to relieve the plainness of the facade. Ayacucho, a bishopric since 1609, has a cathedral of more pretentious archi- tecture built of volcanic rock from the Picota mountains, Puno, raised to a bishopric In 1861, has a cathedral which is well con- structed and quite ornate in architec- tural embellishment. The space of the facade between the two towers is highly ornamented and has a number. of fine statues of saints placed in open niches as an unusual feature. Trujillo's Two Large Towers. si Trujillo, an episcopal see since 1577, has a large and substantial cathedral whose architectural features are two large towers with a cupola over the center of the building. Many fine paintings decorate the sacristy. The general plan of the building is similar to that of the cathedral of Lima, but on a smaller scale. Cuzco, the ancient capital of the In- cas, was made a bishopric as early as 1536. Construction of the cathedral was begun the same year, but for one reason and another ths building was not completed until 90 years there- after. It is in the style of the Span- ish renaissance and was built of stone